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Plymouth schools, LTC, businesses going high tech with industrial management program
"When you get to the facility and see the modern technology and you see how the students are engaged and the excitement of the instructors, it really goes a long way to show people what modern manufacturing is all about," Lanser said.
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*(La Quinta, Calif. – January 19, 2012)* The National Cheese Institute has bestowed its highest honor, the NCI Laureate Award, on Lou Gentine, chairman and CEO of Sargento Foods Inc., Plymouth, Wis. The award was presented this week to Gentine during a special ceremony at the International Dairy Foods Association's 2012 Dairy Forum by NCI Vice Chairman Mike Reidy, who is senior vice president, supply chain and corporate affairs, for Leprino Foods Company.
The Year in Business: Signs of life County's economy picks up a bit in 2011
It wasn't always smooth, but the Sheboygan County economy continued to show signs of life in 2011. Area employers continued to slowly add jobs, which helped bring Sheboygan's unemployment rate down to its lowest level in nearly three years and for the first time since the recession took hold, the year passed without any large-scale layoffs or factory closures.
Forbes honors Kohler with Five-Star Awards
The American Club hotel and Kohler Waters Spa in Kohler has been awarded the 2012 Forbes Five-Star Award in its 54th annual listing of Five-Star and Four-Star hospitality establishments worldwide.They are also the first and only Forbes Five-Star hospitality establishments in Wisconsin to earn the organization's highest rating.
Toppers Pizza to open in downtown Sheboygan
Toppers Pizza, a Whitewater-based specialty pizza chain with 32 locations in six states, will open a location in downtown Sheboygan.
Sheboygan business leaders look to future at economic development group's annual meeting
With the national economy still sluggish and unemployment still high, several hundred business leaders got together Tuesday night to, in effect, celebrate what's going right for the local economy and to look forward to better times ahead.
Incentives help state compete, experts say
Even if tax credits don't create as many jobs as they intend, Wisconsin needs the incentives to compete with other states for new or relocating businesses, experts said.
ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL As Occupy protests rail across America, Sheboygan, Wis., enjoys the smallest gap between rich and poor
SHEBOYGAN, WIS. — In a lakefront town perhaps best known for its jaunty name and mouth-watering smoked bratwursts, there’s a new claim to fame: the most equal city in America. According to the latest statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, the city and suburbs of Sheboygan, Wis., have the smallest gap between the rich and poor of any metropolitan area in the United States.
LTC unveils high-tech lab for technical education
CLEVELAND — As technical education equipment becomes increasingly outdated and school budgets increasingly tight, closing the gap between Wisconsin's high school students and employers requires some outside-the-box thinking.
Special report: Piggly Wiggly at 100
Paul Butera figured it was time to retire back in the mid-2000s when he began selling off his Chicago-area grocery stores and cutting his workweek down to five days. After five decades in the business, the Italian immigrant and high school dropout turned entrepreneur had certainly earned it.
